Transfigurations: Theology and the French Feminists Book

This volume explores the impact of the provocative and challenging work of this generation's most notable French feminists. Despite the growing influence of the French feminists in the humanities (especially in literary criticism, postculturalism, and psychoanalysis), American religionists have only recently begun to utilize their approaches and theories. The volume introduces the characteristic concerns and themes of the leading French feminists (particularly Helene Cixous, Luce Irigary, and Julia Kristeva), assesses their work against the very different orientations and impulses of North American feminism, and gauges the potential of their ideas for both hermeneutical explorations and for feminist theologies. In the process contributors shed important light on such issues as the normativity of women's experience, the character of subjectivity, and structural dimensions of oppression. For those who would join this critical conversation, Transfiguration will be the indispensable entree. Contributors include: Ellen T. Armour, Amy Hollywood, Franciose Meltzer, Rebecca S. Chopp, Serene Jones, Sharon D. Welch, Elizabeth Grosz, and Cleo McNelly Kearns. --- from book's back coverRead More